Chapter Twelve
Laken
Alone at home with Sunny it was easy to forget about the rest of the world. I wasn’t great about taking time off of work. Thought at first I’d miss the fighting and the roar of the crowd, but I didn’t. Not right away. Maybe I would later but I wouldn’t be on my matingmoon forever, would I? It was easy to forget that Sunny came from a place that wasn’t as balanced as my flight. It was easy to forget that we might have to strip Selt naked and tie him to an altar to unlock our access to Other World gateways. That was easy enough to forget about. I’d seen all he had to show enough times to never want to lay eyes on his naked ass again. Our problems would be there when we resurfaced but sometimes the key to swimming the farthest out to sea was pretending you never had to come up for air at all. Maybe we’d get lucky, and they’d all forget about us too and we’d live here, sequestered away in my house forever.
That evening the doorbell rang but Teddy had already slunk away by the time I made it to the front door. There on the porch was the flight-provided food basket, along with some take out he probably picked up in Starscale 1’s purple district, along with some of Sunny’s stuff. It was his important stuff and some clothes as if Teddy wasn’t sure if he was moving in with me or we’d both migrate over to where they lived together later. I joked about it to Sunny as he fried some pig slices for sandwiches. He went quiet and his scent turned contemplative.
“What? You’re not sure either?” I asked him.
“What I want to say makes me sound like I feel more for Teddy than I do, and I don’t want you to read into it too much.”
“Do you think he’s incapable of living alone?” I asked him.
“No,” Sunny shook his head and flipped the pig slices over in the pan. “He’s more than capable of living alone. It’s just I wonder if he should have to. I’m the one who would hate living alone. I like having someone around to talk to and co-exist with. Maybe I was a wolf in a past life.”
“Or maybe you grew up in a family where talking to others all the time was the happy norm. Nothing wrong with that. Nothing wrong with being introverted either but nothing wrong with liking to have people around. Now, I know we don’t know much about Liam’s visions about what will go on in our part of the universe, but Teddy’s mate isn’t from here. If they want to stay here that house Teddy is living in now would come in handy. I’m not saying we can’t visit each other. We will. Just in the long view, it might be better if we don’t live with him.”
Sunny was quiet for a long moment. Long enough that I started to wonder if I said the wrong thing and it was time for our next squabble.
“I hope I get along with his mate,” Sunny finally said. “I’ve watched so many friend groups fall apart because their mates don’t get along. I don’t want that to be us.”
“If he’s like Teddy, I’m sure you will. Despite his near-choking of Selt, he seems like a guy who goes out of his way to be kind.”
“Sometimes.”
“Sometimes is more than most dragons. Doing the right thing and being kind aren’t always the same things,” I reminded him.
“Do you want me to tell him to bring the rest of my stuff over?” Sunny asked.
“What do you want? I want you to live with me, of course. I want us to live together at the very least, even if it’s not here. That doesn’t mean all your stuff has to live here. If having some of it over there makes you feel better--- I’m rambling. You’ve turned me into a rambling dragon. Shame on you, Sunny Moonscale.”
“I like listening to you talk for a change,” Sunny said. “Let’s wait until we get us worked out before we worry about the rest of my stuff. If there’s something I need in the meantime, we’ll worry about it as we come to it.”
“It looks like he brought your stash of lube and condoms,” I said, poking through the bags.
“Eh, no. He bought that or added it to my stuff. I never collected them in hoards like that. I didn’t know he did either.”
“Does he not want us to reproduce?” I laughed, setting the bag aside. “Wait. Are you okay with me poking around your stuff?”
“He wants us to have choices and it’s just stuff. Anything officially Moonscale is kept in the Captain’s office on the ship,” Sunny shrugged. “I don’t have much to hide. That’s clothes and stuff mostly. Well, and whatever he snuck in there too.”
After dinner, we unpacked Sunny’s belongings. He was right. Most of his stuff was clothes. He owned more shirts than anyone I knew that didn’t work in an industry that required them. He owned a lot of underwear too. Maybe as much as someone who worked at Sprinkles or one of the other purple district establishments.
“Do you wear these?” I asked holding up a thong.
“Yeah. To swim in,” he shrugged.
“You could just go naked,” I laughed. “Practically are in this.”
“Sometimes you keep something a mystery,” he laughed and snatched the swimsuit away from me.
“I’ve seen it all. I’ve tasted it all,” I crossed my arms, smirking at him.
“Well, not everyone has.”
“Fair enough. I’m surprised they lasted all the way here.”
“I’m not. Moonscale made items are built to last,” Sunny said. “Wash and take care of them and our clothes will outlive some of us.”
“You’re gonna live forever as far as I’m concerned. I don’t do well with those doors and people leaving forever,” I said, not missing a beat. “So, I’ll eat those underwear before they get the chance to outlive you.”
“Kinky” Sunny said but flashed me a knowing smile.
That was the problem when you lived so long. Deaths became so few and far between that very few of us knew how to deal with them anymore.
“I’m not planning on going anywhere without you and you’re not allowed to die either. I’ll sacrifice Selt to Frost and Juda before that happens.”
“Don’t worry,” I whispered, pushing off the bed to stand closer to him. “If it comes down to that, so will I, and I won’t even tell your carrier.”
Sunny dropped the thong on the edge of the bed, and we shared a long kiss. I could’ve kissed this dragon forever. His mouth, lips, and tongue were perfect for me. He was perfect for me. As we kissed, his big strong hands moved from my hips to cup my ass cheeks. I leaned into him, playing into his plan without ever knowing it until it was too late. He lifted me by my ass and tossed me backwards onto the bed. Before the mattress stopped shaking, he was on top of me, kissing me hard and rubbing circles over my nipple with one of his thumbs. I let out a throaty laugh and wrapped an arm around him. I bucked my hips up, my hard cock brushing against his through our clothes.
We hadn’t discussed our claiming vows again. We were on the same page as far as hatchlings were concerned. Where we lived and who we sacrificed Selt too was still up in the air. Those were things that could be worked around and with, though. Was it time to stop holding back and acting like we didn’t feel the constant tug of the magic trying to pull us together?
“Yes,” my dragon whispered into my thoughts. “Abso-fucking-lutely.”
“He’s right,” Sunny whispered back to me picking up bits and pieces of our inner monologue while we kissed. “I’m tired of trying to keep my head on straight. I’m tired of trying to stay on track at all. I just want you – all of you, all the fucking time, Laken. For now. Forever. Later. Tomorrow. Next life. Whenever. Everything else can wait. What I think about casual sex doesn’t matter anymore. Selt will be there whenever we want to sacrifice him and as for my flight, they’ll just have to live with whatever we decide. I mean, they don’t even know which of the triplets is heir.”
“Why not?” I grunted under him as I ran my free hand down his back to grab a handful of ass.
“Because Eston is a fucking genius. He’s my brother’s mate. He did this whole spell on himself and his brother so that none of them could ever tell anyone who hatched first. None of us know. Not even they know. My guess is Teal. They think it was Cobalt because he’s like a fraction of a centimeter taller than the other two but it doesn’t matter. My grandparents couldn’t steal away the heir from his brothers because they could all be the heir to the Moonscale Flight and the damn magic. It’s fucking great. They don’t talk about it anymore, but I used to hear my parents arguing about it when I was a teenager.”
“I think I want to be his friend. I like to imagine that when my flight was on Earth we’d drive human leaders fucking crazy. According to my grandma her uncles used to tell tales of such things. Shitting on steeples and --- Wait, that’s not very sexy, is it?”
“I should say no. I’m part of that ruling family but--- Maybe it is. Resistance, I mean. Fighting back against what feels unfair. That’s sort of sexy.”
We kissed again and I wished he’d have stripped us naked before flopping me onto the bed.
“I can fix that,” he teased, trying to raise up, but I had a hold of him with both hands now.
“Not yet. I’m not ready to let go of you.”
“Can’t get naked if I can’t move. Can’t get you naked either.”
“Moonscale magic doesn’t include teleporting my clothes off?” I mock pouted.
“Babe, I wish. I fucking wish. You’d never wear clothes again,” he laughed and kissed me again.
“I’d still have the upper hand in the arena. I mean, you’d have more luck teleporting off your own clothes in that case.”
“One day I’m going to fuck you in the arena,” he whispered in my ears and goosebumps rose up on my flesh.
My brain scurried around trying to figure out how one might secure a whole arena for such an act. I didn’t think the council would take too kindly to that request. Sunny laughed and kissed me harder. Maybe thinking about it was enough. I imagined my cheek down in the arena grit and his dick pounding into me. It didn’t matter if I could kick his ass or not with how badly I wanted him to fuck mine. He pulled away again and this time I let him go. He stripped and then stripped me before I pulled him back down for a long, hard kiss. My teeth grazed against his bottom lip, giving it more scales, before sucking it into my mouth for a second.
He sank back onto his knees and rubbed his hands all over my body. He touched my shoulders, chest, and stomach leaving behind a warm trail of desire and a hungry need as he marked me as his territory with his palms. He played with my nipples, rolling them under his thumbs and sending little thunderbolts to land right square between my legs. I arched my back, and he pressed me back down as if he was far from finished with me.
Everything inside me wanted him. I was hard and slick and might’ve said yes to anything Sunny asked for. He nudged my thighs further apart and scooted in closer to me. His dick stood erect in front of him as if it reached out for my touch. I took him in my hand, and he let out a low throaty groan and thrust through my fist, leaving behind a streak of precum on my skin. I stroked him as he drew teasing circles over my chest and down my belly. He traced my happy trail again and again always stopping short of my dick as if he hadn’t already held it, stroked it, and sucked on it more than once since we met. Teasing or shy, I wasn’t sure, but every touch from my mate left me wanting so much more.
His hands caressed lower, moving together on either side of my dick and balls. He massaged my thighs before coming back to them again and again. I let out a long breath. His touch had my fire tickling the back of my throat. Everything was right there – pleasure was so close. I rode out the moment, reveling in his touches and caresses as his fingers moved lower sliding between my cheeks and brushing against my omegahole. This time, I spread my legs further, inviting him in. He grinned at me as his digits sank into my body. I clenched around his two fingers, letting him know I had my ways to play back. I rocked over his digits, stroking my own hidden nerve endings, while teasing him with what I planned to do with his dick as soon as he’d let me. His fingers rocked inside me, stroking all my sweet spots, and drawing out more slickness from me than I knew was possible.
Sunny’s fingers were coated with the proof of how much I wanted him when he pulled his hand away. It dribbled onto his palm. For a moment, I thought he might lick it away for a taste of me. Instead, he took his dick in his hand and stroked himself using my natural lubrication. I licked my lips and reached out for his not busy hand. He entwined his fingers and let me pull him nearly on top of me. Reaching between our bodies, I knocked his hand out of the way and stroked him a couple of times before leading him home. Sunny’s eyes drifted half-closed and he bit his lip as I rubbed the plump head of his cock against my slick, hungry omegahole.
“Fuck,” he murmured under his breath.
“That’s it,” I nodded.
“Yeah.”
I rubbed him in circles against my hole until he gave the slightest thrust forward and slid into me. My body opened to him, easily, aided by my slickness. I gasped as my body went from hungry to full of him in seconds. Wrapping my arms around his shoulders, I pulled him close, so I had something to hold onto.
“I’ve got you, mate,” he whispered in my ear.
It took us only a few seconds to find the rhythm between our bodies. It was as if we remembered it from all our previous lifetimes together. As my body relaxed enough to happily take every glorious inch Sunny offered, I ran my hands down his long back and grabbed handfuls of his ass. He moaned against my lips as we kissed our way through the pleasure building between our bodies.
“Who first?” Sunny whispered against my lips.
“Doesn’t matter. We’re both cumming mate,” I said, trying not to laugh at the absurdity of his question.
“No. Well, yes,” he laughed, pausing mid thrust to allow both of us to think straight for a damn minute. “I meant, biting. The claiming vows.”
“Me! Bite me!” I roared and he thrust hard into me finishing the stroke he paused seconds earlier.
Sunny kissed up and down my throat and across my collarbone to find my claiming gland on my shoulder. It was soft and squishy as he kissed it and licked around its edge. I tossed my head to the side, giving him space to work and preparing for him to take his time as he did with everything else. A second later, his tooth pierced my gland, and I roared as the pain came and went and he sank into me deep and hard. I clung to him, using his ass cheeks as leverage to keep him moving, while he lapped at the clear magical fluid running from my gland. That was the good stuff. That was the magical stuff that held enough of my present life memories to make Sunny feel not crazy because he was in love with me. That’s how it worked for true-mates. Somehow the magic thought ahead far enough to protect us from the irrationality of a solid, living brain. I wondered what it showed him. I picked up bits and pieces of my life over the flight link but nothing solid enough to hold onto. Mostly my parents and grandparents. A bit of my vibes flying this way and that. A knowing that I’d seen an altar like the one in Liam’s vision before.
Wait!
Hold up!
Wait!
Sunny paused midlick and I bumped him with my shoulder, so he continued. There was no pausing the claiming vows once they began.
It was in the purple district. In some kink club. Some kink club I visited years ago.
“I’ll go there with you,” Sunny said, missing the point.
At least I thought he missed the point as the clear magical fluid running out of my claiming gland ran dry. Our bodies moved together and I let go of the realization. I’d have plenty of time to think about it later. Now everything, inside and out, felt too good to ignore. I rode the waves of sensations washing over and raining down on me like a spring rain.
Sunny’s dick shook inside me and above me he went rigid.
“Hey now,” I whispered. “You can cum.”
“You fir---”
“None of that,” I shook my head and let go of his ass to wrap an arm around his shoulders. “Cum. Not everything is done according to some dumb script. Cum inside me and then I’ll bite you.”
He trembled above me and thrust again. His eyes were dark with need and hunger as his thrusts came harder and faster. I clung to him, squeezing his dick tight inside me, urging him on toward his release. He growled when he came, spilling his warm, sticky, egg-making seed into my body. I growled back, roaring and fanning away the smoke rings coming from our noses.
“On your belly, mate,” I growled, hungry for more of him and crazy for a taste of whatever hid inside his claiming gland.
For once, Sunny didn’t argue with me. He rolled off me and onto his stomach. I was on him in seconds. The lube that Teddy so thoughtfully provided was still in the kitchen with our snacks. Sunny was an alpha and that meant he wasn’t self-lubricating, but he didn’t need to be for what I had in mind. I stretched out on top of him and buried my dick between his cheeks. I rubbed my shaft between the firm, fleshy globes over his asshole. His muscles clenched around me as if he tried to suck me in, but the angle was all wrong. I kissed his neck and shoulders, as he rocked his hips, helping me move over his flesh.
My dragon shifted my eyes to his and then lent me his canine tooth. I bit Sunny hard, and he let out a groan under me as the clear magical fluid from his gland exploded onto my tongue. He tasted sweet like candy – like all the sugar he and the other Moonys poured into their coffee. Biting him was enough for me to know his dick was already growing hard again. I rubbed my dick over him faster as scenes from Earthside flooded into my mind. Blurry images of a war he only heard talked about but never saw. Giant Cade and Eston. Giant other adults. Little kids who also felt like giants to him. He grew and they shrank. His parents came into the picture – still seeming like giants to him even now. He loved sports. A regular jock even after his time at Moonscale Academy. He became better friends with Teddy through playing rugby. The Moonscales – at least the parts of them I saw through Sunny’s eyes weren’t as bad as I expected them to be. His flight through space wasn’t nearly as interesting as I thought it might’ve been. He spent a lot of time talking with everyone and playing cards and board games. He kept journals in case anything interesting happened but mostly jotted down ‘nothing of note happened today’ each night before going to bed.
I caught a flash of his singular one-night stand in the purple district and how out of place he felt afterward. Now that he was with me, he’d never have to feel like that again. I’d talk our intimacy in circles if that’s what he needed me to do. Our romping and sex lives meant one thing and one thing only – that we were together. That we belonged together. That we chose each other so many lifetimes ago and that choice had stood every last test of time.
I kissed his shoulder one last time after his claiming gland ran dry of clear, magical fluid. Then I rolled him onto his back and straddled over his hard again dick. I sank onto him, reveling in how thick he felt inside me pushing up against the walls of my omegahole. I took him into me – every last glorious inch – as his hands found my ass cheeks. His pleasure mingled with mine and rained down on us both as he bucked up and I came down to meet him.
One of Sunny’s hands left my hips to wrap around my cock. His hand was big and warm and exactly what I needed. He squeezed and stroked me as I moved over his dick again and again. I lost track of myself and of him. Were we really two separate dragons or were we one now? Our dragons came together too once our claiming vows were complete. We were finally back together in the way we belonged.
I was close and so was he. With our new mating link wide open we didn’t have to speak those words or try to navigate our little corner of the flight link. I came hard, raining down sticky streams on Sunny’s chest and stomach as he came inside me for the second time since he tossed me onto the bed. When not one more drop of pleasure was left in either of us I rolled off him and put my legs up in the air. He wrapped an arm around my thighs and kissed my shoulder. He wasn’t alone in wanting a family. Maybe the whole legs up in the air thing was a myth but then again, most myths had a kernel of truth inside them somewhere.